France and the Future

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Last week was a terrible week.

Due to the tragedies last week, Secular-Human accepted exclusively humanist deviations in recognition of lives lost in Paris France, Lebanon, Beirut, and other locations around the globe.  Our previous entry on this topic was purely for commemoration of the victims, but all around the world serious discussions and even military actions are already under way.

France vows to destroy the Islamic State, declaring that it will maintain or raise its current defense budget and work to quickly deport criminals that pose a threat to society.

John Oliver opened his Sunday show with a particularly profane and cathartic fuck you to the terrorists responsible.

A mastermind behind the attacks has been pinpointed and authorities are now hunting him down.  France is already conducting a multitude of anti-terrorism raids.

And, across the world, billions came together to support France in these dark hours, while Muslims across the globe decried the attacks.

But, of course, all of this is only the beginning of everything.

I myself have not had much time to devote to facilitating a group-wide dialogue within Secular-Human, but these tragedies strike home for us.  There is the problem of religious fundamentalism at the heart of this, as well as the quagmire called the Middle East and the West's response to these atrocities.  Questions on everything from firearms laws, immigrant policies, and military action to defeat ISIL to deeper philosophical questions such as the value of human life and the cross-communications between religious have been revived in an unfortunate detestable manner.

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Months ago, I read an article about the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a political dissident who was forced into exile and hard labor followed by compulsory military service.  While Dostoyevsky's own experiences made him distrustful of the socialist progressive movements in Russia, and while the article in question uses his perspective to criticize Western intervention in the Middle East, the lesson here remains universal: the worship of an idea, an ideology, over the celebration of human life will only ever end in tragedy.

We have yet to take this lesson to heart.
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Cataclyptic's avatar
My heart to France. Don't give into the fear, and we'll win this fight.